Clog
Category
Leatherwork
Date
1826
Materials
Brass, Leather, Metal, Wood
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348855.2
Summary
Shoe; One of a pair of clogs - Made from black leather toecap attached to the side of the sole with a narrow strip of leather and 13 nails. Brass quarters are held in place with 3 screws. The sole is wooden with 32 nails around the outer edge and 2 inside. It is hinged using 3 narrow strips of brass over a piece of brown leather. Evelyn Vigeon 'Clogs and Wooden Soled Shoes' Journal of the Costume Society no. 11 (1977) 'a number of patents such as the one of 1826 which had a wooden, hinged sole with leather toe-cap and quarters with ankle strap'. (male/female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade